Left Accuses GOP: "Getting Rid of Wellstone is Passion for Rove, Cheney, George W. Bush"

Citizens for Legitimate Government ^ | 10/26/02 | Self

[bootless]

This is what I received in my email. My comments follow. Bold is theirs.

Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
October 26, 2002
http://www.legitgov.org/

-- BREAKING NEWS AND COMMENTARY--
http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
[Senator Paul Wellstone, 58, died in plane crash. We have lost one of our best, brightest and most consistently progressive Senators. And now Senate control is in serious jeopardy. We mourn the terrible loss of a true Patriot and hero.]

Paul Wellstone, Fighter -- by John Nichols (The Nation, May 9, 2002)
"Paul Wellstone is a hunted man. Minnesota's senior senator is not just another Democrat on White House political czar Karl Rove's target list, in an election year when the Senate balance of power could be decided by the voters of a single state. Rather, getting rid of Wellstone is a passion for Rove, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and the special-interest lobbies that fund the most sophisticated political operation ever assembled by a presidential administration. 'There are people in the White House who wake up in the morning thinking about how they will defeat Paul Wellstone,' a senior Republican aide confides. 'This one is political and personal for them.' "

Bush Fears Tenacious, Popular Wellstone -- by John Nichols (Madison Capital Times, April 24, 2001)
"Let there be no doubt as to the identity of George W. Bush’s least favorite Democratic U.S. senator. It’s Wellstone, the rabble-rousing Progressive who represents not just Minnesota but what remains of the fighting populist spirit of the Upper Midwest... The Bushies despise Wellstone, who unlike most Senate Democrats has been fighting spirited battles against the new administration’s policies on everything from the environment to the tax cuts for the rich to military aid for the 'Plan Colombia' drug war boondoggle. Other Democratic senators who face re-election contests in 2002 are, according to polls, more vulnerable than Wellstone. But the Bush camp has been focusing highest-level attention on "Plan Wellstone" — its project to silence progressive opposition."

Mysterious group spends $1 million on anti-Wellstone campaign Americans for Job Security, a Virginia-based interest group that opposes the reelection of Democratic U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, has made an unprecedented $1 million ad buy that will fill the airwaves in the last two weeks before the election, according to Wellstone campaign officials.

Wellstone Sets Pace, Declares Support for Action on Corporate Reform (Oct. 24, 2002) Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota today became the first Member of Congress to support a pledge to work for top to bottom reform of corporations and to provide new tools for federal regulators to protect taxpayers, consumers and investors. The 12-point pledge is being circulated to all 535 members of the Senate and the House of Representatives by Ralph Nader in an effort to build momentum for major reforms in the wake of the corporate fraud exposed at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphi, Arthur Andersen and many other businesses.

Minnesota Senator Is Among 8 Dead in Crash Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota was killed Friday when his campaign plane crashed in a wooded region in the northern part of his state, officials said Friday. Mr. Wellstone, 58, a Democrat who was one of the Senate's most liberal members and was in a fierce fight to win re-election to a third term, perished along with seven other people when the aircraft went down near Eveleth. Mr. Wellstone had opposed the resolution giving pResident Bush the authority to invade Iraq. [This is a terrible loss and one of the most inauspicious coincidences imaginable!]

Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone dead in plane crash in Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone, a Democrat from Minnesota, was killed in a small plane crash Friday about seven miles east of Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport, authorities said. Eight people were reported aboard the plane -- a twin-engine turboprop King Air manufactured by Raytheon Aircraft.

Raytheon wants to help in investigation of senator's plane crash [Holy Cover-Up, Batman!! I am *SURE* they do!] Wichita-based Raytheon Aircraft Co. said it is willing and able to send an investigative team to examine the cause of the plane crash that killed U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone along with his wife, daughter and five others in northern Minnesota Friday.

Team to search for crash causes -- Investigation: The FBI will determine whether Friday's crash was caused by bad weather, mechanical problems or human error. The Beech King Air that Sen. Paul Wellstone boarded in St. Paul Friday morning had a solid track record as one of the most popular workhorses in the sky. But something went wrong Friday... {FREEPER NOTE: Icing will do that to you in Northern Minnesota.)

Did the right-wing or CIA or someone close to Bush tamper with Sen. Wellstone’s plane?
By Jackson Thoreau "My first hunch about Sen. Wellstone's tragic plane crash less than two weeks before this pivotal election is that the plane was tampered with by right-wingers, possibly the CIA. Raytheon Co., one of the biggest U.S. military contractors and manufacturer of the plane that crashed, is a huge donor to Republicans - U.S. House Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas, for instance, received $48,201 alone from Raytheon in 1997-98. The Republican National Committee received at least $170,000 from Raytheon since 1999." {FREEPER Note: ... Oh, never mind. What can I add to what you're already thinking?}

Raytheon -- Strategic Business Areas The company's four strategic business areas are aligned to provide customers with solutions that draw upon the capabilities of the entire company. These strategic business areas are: Missile Defense; Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance; Precision Strike; and Homeland Security. Raytheon Backgrounders: Raytheon - Experienced Partner in Homeland Security; Raytheon - Airport Security; First Responder Command and Communication Vehicle

Similarities of Wellstone, Carnahan deaths send shudder through body politic. It was all too similar: A fatal plane crash days before an election in a hard-fought U.S. Senate race [killing key Democrats]. The accident that killed Sen. Paul Wellstone, a Minnesota Democrat, members of his family and three of his staff on Friday chilled political figures from Missouri, coming as it did almost exactly two years after the death of Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan. [The most virulent strains of anthrax were sent to whom? That would be *Democrats.* Coincidence run amok...] {FREEPER NOTE: Leftist paranoia run amok. Both GOP opposition candidates suspended their campaigns following each crash. And Carnahan WON!}

Wellstone Death Throws Senate Race Into Chaos The sudden death of incumbent Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone threw a tight Minnesota race that could decide control of the Senate into chaos on Friday, little more than a week before the election.

Statement by President Al Gore on Senator Paul Wellstone 1944-2002

Lori R. Price
http://legitgov.org
Petition to Senate - Investigate Oddities of 9/11: http://www.petitiononline.com/11601TFS/petition.html

[Classicaliberalconservative]

out of the senate

[GiovannaNicoletta]

I guess I can understand the Left seeking to exploit this tragedy for political gain, because that's what leftists do, but for once they might want to think their words and actions all the way through to the end before they get too out of control.

Some of the garbage they have begun to spew, if they don't rein it in, could be actionable. And somebody could make an argument (and I'm not saying I believe this) that it's strange that two of the rat candidates that were looking at very possible defeat, died with just enough time left before the election to garner a sympathy vote from the sheeple for the replacement rat that the rats managed to dredge up from the rat replacement pool.

[Don Corleone]

Voice recorder read-out. (actually they don't have them on this small an aircraft.)

Captain: Senator, the weather is below minimums. We better go to our alternate.
Senator: What do you mean? I am a US SENATOR. We will land. That is my order. I am chartering this plane!
Captain: But senator...It is not safe...
Senator: I'll decide what is safe. I am a US SENATOR. Go in and land.
Captain: But...but
Senator: Do it Damn it.
Recording ends..................

[Brian Allen]

<< My first hunch about Senator Wellstone's [Death] less than two weeks before this pivotal election is that the plane was tampered with .... >>

Psychopathological Projection Syndrome, [Invented, here on FR, by me] is a symptom of the Psychosis also known as "liberalism" -- and gives the mongrel scum away every darn time.

If they are accusinig us of doing it and are so impugning our character, its a dead-set cert his death was caused by Arkancide.

[Southack]

"So how come Carhahan's wife won the election if he was so far behind?"

Ashcroft suspended his campaigning out of respect for Mel. The lack of issue ads combined with the sympathy vote to push Carnahan over Aschroft by a tiny margin.

The race ended up being so close that it actually became an issue when downtown St Louis polls were kept open two hours past the election close.

[snopercod]

Good info. I have not followed this crash, but was wondering what made them turn 90 degrees from the approach path. Engine out?

[Redleg Duke]

The rapid reaction of these swine almost make one wonder if maybe they were expecting this!

[Snake65]

This makes me sick and sad and tired all at the same time. I grew up in Minnesota. I believe the last time MN sent a Republican to the Senate it was Rudy Boschwitz, and his even being elected in the first place was something of a miracle. It's not like MN had a chance of sending a Republican to the Senate this year. Nuts kill our leaders sometimes (JFK, MLK, RFK) but this isn't Imperial Rome.

Though it came close under x42.

[No Left Turn]

I love these dopey Democrats. If they would look at this situation logically, they would ask Daschle whether he cut the fuel line on Wellstone's plane. If Republicans knew that plane was going to go down, they would have raised a state-wide safety net to break its fall. Why? It's very likely that Wellstone would have lost. With his death will come some silly stand in that will garner all the sympathy vote of soccer moms and muddle-headed indies, who think that a Senator's death should be followed by the appointment of a unqualified stand-in. Wellstone's death ensures that the Democrats will hold the seat. If motive alone is powerful enough to prosecute, they should lead Daschle away in handcuffs. And while a rationale person couldn't blame Daschle, the same person couldn't deny the guy's obvious lust for power, and the likelihood that he sees this tragedy as just the break he needs to keep the Senate.

[Notwithstanding]

Accurate info about Wellstone's REAL legacy:

http://www.mccl.org/norman_wellstone.pdf

[The Raven]

>>These people turn my stomach

My thoughts also.

[Notwithstanding]

The Wellstone legacy:

[bootless]

This makes me sick and sad and tired all at the same time.

I totally understand. I agree.

Best...

[bootless]

Could be an engine out. I haven't seen the charts yet for the approach. Understand there's no tower at the airport, and that they stayed in contact with Approach. Are you checking the thread over at Avsig? I'm running a fever, so won't be checking in there for a while - I have to concentrate on the World Series! :-)

[bootless]

I don't think they they were expecting it - they're just spring-loaded to believe that the GOP and conservatives sacrifice their young (when in actuality, THEY'RE more likely to), and have their suspicions and paranoia at the ready. Not much thought required.

[virgil]

I guess we can officially say that truth has taken a back seat to speculation, conspiracy theories and lack of any sense of external reality.

[AmishDude]

And that is the response to this stuff, Southack. The fact is, if anybody benefits from this, it's the Democrats who can put in an out-of-work politico on the ballot, with name-recognition and no time to conduct a real campaign against him.

In looking at the MN law with the "supplimental ballot", I like to refer to it as the "mob option".

[tickles]

By Jackson Thoreau "My first hunch about Sen. Wellstone's tragic plane crash less than two weeks before this pivotal election is that the plane was tampered with by right-wingers, .>>>>>>>


funny, mine was first we saw Carnahan in a close election in 2000 and his plane then crashed,

now we see Welstone in a close election and his plane crashes,

since the death of the canidate doesn't ever seem to help the challenger but the party that loses it's canidate. well........

[Non-Sequitur]

The race ended up being so close that it actually became an issue when downtown St Louis polls were kept open two hours past the election close.

It actually wasn't that close. Ashcroft lost by about 50,000 votes and 2 or 3 percentage points.

[wattsmag2]

It is more probable that his own cronies did him in considering how poorly he was running for an incumbent. Perhaps we now know why Torreceli bowed out.